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For The People Act Cannot Die — Here’s Why

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After the Census Bureau released detailed population and demographic data from the 2020 census yesterday, states and local governments are set to begin the once-a-decade process of drawing new voting district boundaries known as redistricting. And gerrymandering — when those boundaries are drawn with the intention of influencing who gets elected — is bound to follow.

The current redistricting cycle will be the first since the Supreme Court’s 2019 ruling that gerrymandering for party advantage cannot be challenged in federal court, which has set the stage for perhaps the most ominous round of map drawing in the country’s history.

In the unlikely event that the For the People Act passes the Senate, gerrymandering will be relegated to the annals of history, but since that is about as likely as me growing a pair of wings and flying far, far away, I will take this opportunity to redux my explanation of…

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Explainer: What is a tipping point, and why should we care? — Palm Oil Detectives

Barbara Crane Navarro

Sumatran Orangutan Pongo abelii 1.5 year old baby dangling from tree branch North Sumatra, Indonesia *Critically Endangered

Our ability to understand and act thoughtfully around this single concept could determine the fate of life on Earth. What is a tipping point, and why should we care?: Ecosystems are subject to disturbances and major shifts. Agricultural run off from #palmoil pollutes local rivers, depleting the oxygen fish need to survive. Read more Tweet[…]

Explainer: What is a tipping point, and why should we care? — Palm Oil Detectives

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Que considérez-vous comme «offensant»? –  actualisé

Barbara Crane Navarro

Femme Yanomami peignant sa fille avec Achiote, Amazonas, Venezuela – re-cadrée pour éviter la censure

«Les mineurs d’or creusent partout comme des cochons sauvages. Les rivières de la forêt ne seront bientôt plus que des remous fangeux, pleins de boue, d’huile à moteur et de déchets. Ils lavent également leur poudre d’or dans les ruisseaux, la mélangeant avec du mercure. Toutes ces choses sales et dangereuses rendent les eaux malades et la chair du poisson molle et pourrie. Après l’arrivée des chercheurs d’or, la forêt était devenue mauvaise et était remplie de fumées épidémiques de xawara. Depuis l’arrivée des mineurs d’or parmi nous, la plupart de nos pères et grands-pères ont été dévorés par leurs maladies.» – Le porte-parole et chaman Yanomami Davi Kopenawa

Quel est mon point de vue personnel sur «l’obscénité»? J’ai eu des problèmes occasionnels, pendant de nombreuses années, avec des photos de Yanomami vivant traditionnellement…

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Texas schools have limited options to keep kids safe from COVID-19 | The Texas Tribune

For the second straight year, schools must worry about keeping their staff and their children safe and ensure that they’re providing the best possible education during a pandemic that has killed more than 50,000 Texans. Source: Texas schools have limited options to keep kids safe from COVID-19 | The Texas Tribune

Invasions of Afghanistan – Wikipedia – All ultimately failed…

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International Lefthanders Day 2021

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Introduction – International Lefthanders Day is celebrated on August 13 every year to spread awareness about the advantages and disadvantages of being left-handed as compared with right-handed all over the world. This day celebrates left-handed people’s uniqueness with 7 to 10 percent of the world’s population. International Lefthanders Day also raises awareness on those problems that are faced by left-handers.

International Lefthanders Day 2021 | Eventlas

History – Founder of left-Handers International Inc, Dean R. Campbell celebrated the first International Left-Handers Day in the year 1976. After that, Left-Handers Club introduced International Left-Handers Day on August 13, 1992, as a part of their organization to celebrate their uniqueness and be conscious with the benefits and disadvantages of being a left-hander. This day highlights the challenges faced by left-handed people all over the world.

International Left-Handers Day 2021: Date, History, Significance, and Facts

Significance – At about 10 percent of people all over the world are lefties with a better memory as compared with righties. There…

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Day 65/67 of GED in Five Months, Parabolas, and Public Libraries

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

Parabolas describe falling, thrown, (or ?) objects: symmetry is … symmetrical.

–Clearly, a library at each campus of each Adult /Continuing Education site would be helpful, as well as quiet study cubicles, for those with no place to study at home.

Continuing to learn, and helping others continue to learn, helps our society, so I am posting these lesson plans in the hope of helping others to help themselves to learn, whether one has yet to finish High School, or merely wants a refresher.

But, the fun parabola question is: will this space tour transportation (rocket) travel in the form of a parabola on the way to and from the Space Station?  Babylon 5, we’re almost there! 

Axiom Space said three private individuals and a former NASA astronaut will fly aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule for an eight-day stay on the station.

 

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